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by T. M. Ballantyne, Jr.Sat, 08 Mar 2014 21:05:46 +0000en-UShourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1The Antithesis of Reporting the “News”http://uncommonsensenow.com/the-antithesis-of-reporting-the-news/
http://uncommonsensenow.com/the-antithesis-of-reporting-the-news/#commentsSat, 08 Mar 2014 20:19:10 +0000T. M. Ballantyne Jr.http://uncommonsensenow.com/?p=608Continue reading →]]>In the midst of completing my most recent book, Oh Really, O’Reilly! I did a “live” diatribe on how I or any other intelligent and informed person (not informed because he or she listens to the Establishment Media – that, of course, would be the polar opposite thereof) could write for the OEM (Obsolete Establishment Media – I absolutely refuse to legitimize them by mindlessly referring to them as the “mainstream” media!).

In a few paragraphs I covered a handful of consistent themes and what one could absolutely say and not say, regarding each of them – all mindless drivel, of course (the Green Economy, the evil of firearms, the “Arab Spring” ‘people’s revolution,’ the plight of the Palestinians due to the oppression of Israel, homosexuality and same-sex marriage and adoption good, Boy Scouts evil, etc.). My point was that I wouldn’t dream of wasting a second (nor could I stand it, frankly) listening to or watching them.

I confess, I did watch once in the last probably ten years. It was when Channel 5 was doing a hit piece on me, constructing their own conspiracy theory that I worked for Joseph Farah (WND). Morgan Loew (Morgan Loew | Phoenix, AZ Investigative Reporter Bio – CBS 5 – KPHO

http://www.kpho.com/story/14849387/morgan-loew

Award-winning 5i Team reporter Morgan Loew is an Arizona native with an interest in uncovering corruption and injustice in his home state – what a cover/joke!), whom I had never before met or heard of, went all the say to Surprise, AZ to find me, one warm summer night at 9:00 after I had spoken to the Surprise Tea Party. He was stunned, I think, to find someone who neither apologized for, nor was embarrassed by his sure knowledge that the UFO in the Oval Office (Unidentified Foreign Occupant) was entirely illegitimate – and who could factually defend the obvious.

A few weeks later after Sheriff Arpaio’s second press conference reporting the results of his investigation of the president’s key identifying documents I interviewed Melissa Blasius of Channel 12. I had also never heard of her, but she openly acknowledged on camera that she knew who I was.

Shortly thereafter I questioned Congressman Trent Franks at a public gathering, and when I identified myself he too said that he knew who I was. I say this to boast, of course, but more importantly, to make the point that while all of these celebrities (elites) somehow knew me, I knew none of them (although I had heard of Trent Franks). They knew of me, of course, because of the REAL media in today’s world, the Internet.

Yes, there is much that is false, along with much that is true there. Unlike the OEM, however, there one can get numerous (“both”) sides of every story or issue. The point of all of this being that the very elites of the Ruling Class – government and establishment media – are attuned to the information available on the Internet, while, sadly, even many who profess to be “conservative” continue to abjectly waste their time watching the OEM in order, they say, to “be informed.”

Would they have read Pravda in order to learn the truth about the Soviet Union back in the day? (Today, of course, Pravda is a far more legitimate source than any of the now government-controlled instruments of propaganda in our once-free United States of America. The Pravda has actually covered the illegitimacy of our Undocumented Commander in Chief, as just one example.)

I realized years ago, during the Clinton Impeachment, when the Nashville Tennessean (or Banner?) was vigorously defending the Philanderer in Chief, that buying their paper was no different than sending money to the DNC, so I called them up and canceled my subscription, never again to waste my money in such a futile manner. (For the record, I will never again send money to the GOP.)

When you watch the following, you will perhaps be persuaded that you are NOT getting reporting, but a stunningly coordinated and scripted regurgitation of what SOMEONE else wants you to hear, even though the topic is itself completely innocuous. I have seen or heard, for the record, similar montages (probably put together by Rush) on far more sinister matters – such as Behghazi. The talking points were nearly identical in their phrasing, and repeated ad nauseum across the OEM.

So, my friends, NEVER believe that you need to subject yourself to the mindless mind control of the Left, in order to either “be informed” or “know what the other side is up to.” If you don’t already know, on nearly every subject, then you are simply not using your own God-given ability to reason. You’ll hear it all summed up by the so-called “conservative” press in any case. (I say so-called because the vast majority of even those so professing conform to the straight-jacket “norms” of political correctness, mandated by the very people they presume to oppose.)

Tom Ballantyne – Author

P.S. When my wife and I lived in Palm Desert,CA, during the Prop 8 battle for Traditional Marriage, some five years ago, I had absolute certainty that we would win…and we did. Those of my coworkers who read the local “news” papers, however, did not share my confidence. Sadly, they accepted at face value that these ever-predictable instruments of mis-information actually represented the pulse of the People, when their mission (not necessarily that of each of those in their employ, but certainly of those who control them) is to shape the narrative to their own world view.

Hint: George Soros is not interested in seeing that those in his vast employ report the truth. His ONLY interest is that they further his perverse and destructive paradigm of an “Open Society” – AKA One-World Government, a godless “Workers Paradise” (see Cuba, Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, the former Soviet Union, China, Korea, et al.) where the workers barely subsist, while working to support the Elite Ruling Class.

Trust your own judgement, my friends, and do not give it over to those who either knowingly or unknowingly would destroy both your freedom and your ability to reason. Truth is the enemy of those who would enslave us…and their Commander in Chief is none other than the Father of Lies. I speak not here of Barack Obama. He is merely a well-compensated puppet for a once-prominent “Son of the Morning.”

In the end, each of us will either be saved by, or crushed by, the truth…but we won’t get it from the always-smiling talking heads of network news. What we will get from them, will be the best that “the World” has to offer…and it will be almost totally devoid of lasting truth!

​This is short and sweet:

PROOF: Why You Should STOP Wasting Your Precious
Time on Earth, with TV News

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http://uncommonsensenow.com/the-hypocrisy-of-diversity/#commentsSun, 29 Dec 2013 17:21:18 +0000T. M. Ballantyne Jr.http://uncommonsensenow.com/?p=605Continue reading →]]>I’m sure we are all aware that “diversity” is simply the code word for acceptance of sexual deviance. The term “bullying” is likewise specifically designed to protect certain privileged lifestyles. I suspect that some of us are aware that “bullying” has been going on as long as civilization itself. It isn’t a good thing, of course, but that is why we have families, friends, and good people to come to the rescue of those who are being abused. We don’t need the intervention of legalized criminals such as Eric Holder to “assist” with these matters, when they themselves are the promoters of the very things they pretend to oppose. (Witness the “Justice” Department’s fomenting of racial unrest in the wake of the Trevon Martin media circus, while blatantly ignoring countless acts of brutal black-on-white attacks and beatings nationwide.)

Note that A & E pushes for “acceptance of all people.” They make no distinction between “tolerance” – which they also encourage…while not tolerating Phil’s views and those of the vast majority of Americans: i.e., that homosexuality is, indeed, sin – and “acceptance.” As Christians we do not hate sinners, but we do hate the sins which enslave them and lead to the entrapment of others in those same sinful lifestyles. So tolerance is one thing, acceptance is quite another. Until God redefines morality – which He never will – we will not “accept” homosexuality or any other form of immorality. So, those who are “committed” to their own brand of sin and immorality will simply have to “accept” that God and those who “accept” his teachings will never “accept” their practice. Both acceptance and tolerance are a two-way street. That is precisely why we have the First Amendment…which specifically protects the right to speak out either for or against that which others believe and practice. We can – and should – also do that without hatred…all of us!

]]>http://uncommonsensenow.com/the-hypocrisy-of-diversity/feed/0Republican M.O. Bereft of MO JOhttp://uncommonsensenow.com/republican-m-o-bereft-of-mo-jo/
http://uncommonsensenow.com/republican-m-o-bereft-of-mo-jo/#commentsMon, 14 Oct 2013 17:17:06 +0000T. M. Ballantyne Jr.http://uncommonsensenow.com/?p=593Continue reading →]]>The following was written in response to “A Plea to the Spineless Republicans” by Frank Camp on Friday, October 11, at Last Resistance (http://lastresistance.com/3362/plea-spineless-republican-leaders-government-shutdown/).

The GOP has apparently become a relic of the past. If they cave on this…and they will…it should make it obvious to the People of this country (but probably still won’t) that they (the People, specifically the true Conservatives in the officially-despised Tea Party) are placing their trust in a horse which WILL NOT run, much less win. Obviously, “running” is precisely what they do best. The problem, of course, is that they fear the entire media establishment (Establishment Media, actually)…which is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Left.

So, let’s get this straight: Those who wish to “fundamentally transform” the most successful country in the history of the planet (all the while “loving” it, Michael Moore-style), own the entire apparatus (apparatchik, actually) of “public opinion”…which speaks in direct opposition to the will of the People (often by even their own affected “polls”), and those we elect to represent US (and the U.S. – one in the same) obsequiously and obediently defer to the “RULES” established by this Ministry of Propaganda: i.e., do not speak or act against anything that this man wishes to do to bring down our country…or we will label you “un-American” (and, of course, racist, xenophobic, etc.). Yeah, that makes sense. And yet, the Republican “leadership” – and that seems to be the new definition of “oxymoron”, just as RINO has become the new standard for “redundancy” – and yet the GOP leadership, awaits the latest onslaught from the official, state-controlled media, with bated breath, to see just how “meanly” they are being portrayed.

All I can say to that is that anyone over the age of, say, 16, who doesn’t already know how those who oppose the remaking of America will be portrayed by the old-guard media, should not have been granted a high school diploma. Having said all of this, I will be shocked beyond belief if the old-but-not-so-grand “party” (perhaps a good descriptive after all) does not cave on this. For those unaware of the practice – or, more appropriately, the M.O. of politicians (primarily Republicans) is to make a pretense at having “done something,” only to retreat at the first sign of victory on the side they purport to represent…the old “snatching defeat from the jaws of victory” routine. It is highly doubtful that Mssrs. Boehner, Ryan, and, I presume, Cantor (and, sadly, the majority of those on their side of the aisle – if there are, or ever were, two sides) ever intended to do any more than make a pretense at having “stood up” to our illegitimate “president.”

With great consistency, those who have refused to acknowledge his illegitimacy – the GOP, as well as his own “party” – have in the process become illegitimate themselves. We either uphold our oath to defend the Constitution, or we don’t. The Republicans have failed to do so up and down the chain of command, and across the fruited plain…and given the “purple mountains majesties” a new meaning. We have royalty now in America…along with court jesters whose own antics of self deprecation allow the monarch to save face…and appear even stronger in the bargain.

A sad day for America, but WE are the ones who elected – and continue to elect – those who only pretend to represent us…who only pretend to fight! While leopards do not change their spots, they change their hearts even more reluctantly. Expecting them to do either is to ignore both reason and reality. I wish I were wrong. Only the GOP leaders can make it so…but in the end, it is up to US if they do not.

While this is just business as usual for our flagrantly illegitimate and abusive “administration,” our outrage here should be with the Republicans whom we continue to elect to “represent” us. They do not. Is there any reason why we should have to email or call them to ASK them to do something about this? If we had a mid-level manager in a company we owned, who was involved with the budget, and he didn’t become irate over something like this, he would be summarily dismissed. This is true of dozens of issues – Benghazi, the IRS Tea Party Prosecution Scandal, Voter Fraud in the last election, the “Justice” Department’s openly-announced refusal to enforce DOMA (or to investigate Black-on-White voter intimidation or crime), Fast and Furious, Treyvon Martin (with civil unrest actually being fomented by OUR government over this patent fraud), the “Arab Spring” (unrest being fomented by OUR State Department with the help of Google – all to put the Muslim Brotherhood in power), the NDAA, Homeland “Security” buying billions of rounds of high caliber ordinance, FEMA Camps all over the nation, the militarizing of our police, the institution of Martial Law (Boston), the illegal NSA gathering of personal information on every U.S. Citizen, the intimidation and prosecution of whistle blowers, the failure to protect our borders or prosecute illegal aliens, the absolute and abusive invasion of privacy and charade of Airport “security,” and the patent absurdity of disarming our soldiers on our own military bases, while refusing to prosecute (much less punish) those who slaughter our soldiers (in the name of Allah) as a result, even refusing to call it an act of terror…I could go on and on, and all of this is just off the top of my head!

WHAT ARE ANY OF OUR REPUBLICAN “REPRESENTATIVES” DOING ABOUT ANY OF THIS? You know the answer, don’t you? And they shouldn’t need to be told or begged to do any of it. Once more, this would be grounds for dismissal if an employee at any level didn’t address such obvious outrages on his or her watch!

Time for a Third Party. The People and their (our) Constitution are no longer being represented. Notice that the GOP is now attacking Ted Cruz, one of only three GOP Senators worth their salt (Lee and Paul being the other two). The GOP would be laughable if they weren’t specifically there to enrich themselves at the People’s expense. That being the case (and it is a matter of public record for the members of BOTH parties), it is absolutely time to change horses!

The time for compromising the Rule of Law, while simultaneously tolerating the abuse of it – by those sworn to uphold it – is past. The GOP is dead! Only the clinically insane would continue to vote for these people while expecting them to do something different from what they have ALWAYS done!

Has John Boehner represented us after WE gave him a clear majority in the House? To this day he is cutting deals with our illegal “president” over ObamaCare, in direct opposition to our clearly-expressed will! His performance is disgraceful…and yet the newly-elected and numerically-strengthened Republican Majority immediately re-elected him as their “leader” upon being swept into office by US, the true Conservatives, eleven months ago! The Republican Congress may be the only group of people on Earth more comatose than those of us who continue to elect them!

We must not expect that those who feel the need to compromise their message when campaigning (to appease the Left and their media minions), will somehow feel (and do) otherwise once elected. We need men and women – and a PARTY – who is willing to speak the whole truth, and stand by it, KNOWING that real Americans will stand by them. Only by speaking and standing by the truth will we be free…and there is no other way! Only the Brave (remember the Land of the Free?) are willing to do so, however…and that starts with us…yep, you and me. The ONLY thing that matters in the short or long term is that WE be willing to speak and stand by the truth, individually…simply because it is the RIGHT thing to do. Until we do, we will continue to be “represented” by people who are also unwilling to do so!

This isn’t complicated….

Tom Ballantyne – Author

]]>http://uncommonsensenow.com/590/feed/0Honoring Greatnesshttp://uncommonsensenow.com/honoring-greatness/
http://uncommonsensenow.com/honoring-greatness/#commentsThu, 15 Aug 2013 19:54:41 +0000T. M. Ballantyne Jr.http://uncommonsensenow.com/?p=587Continue reading →]]>Many (most?) may think of me as the ubiquitous bearer of bad news. For the record, I don’t waste time (mine or that of others) arguing with people with whom I irreconcilably disagree. I am willing to engage and discuss, presenting what facts I can, but I believe arguing is typically pointless, as it is always reflective of an emotional entrenchment (often on both sides, admittedly).

With that explanation as backdrop I hasten to add that I do not apologize for my often harsh criticism of those who are seeking (with great success, I might add) to “fundamentally transform” the once greatest nation on earth into the next Detroit (at one time one of the great cities on earth…which only lacked sufficient federal subsidies…according to those whose policies she warmly embraced).

Perhaps some have noted my equally-harsh attacks on those (Republicans all) who should be standing in the breach, but rather, prefer the accolades of the absurdly-monikored “mainstream” (if Billy Graham or Thomas Monson are Catholic) press, of “moderate” or “reasoned.” I prefer the more accurate terms groveling, or, more euphemistically, grossly (and inexcusably) ignorant…and all that the latter implies.

This is not, as we say, a Sunday School picnic! We are now – and for some time have been – at war with the enemies of freedom and all that is good! If those who still read my frequent diatribes are not aware of that fact, then one of us is apparently not very good at what we each do (write…and strive to comprehend what is written).

Happily for you, here is a man from an earlier era who fought the good fight very effectively (far more so, I’m sure) in his own, perhaps-less-confrontational way. I honor his memory.

Tom Ballantyne – Author

IN MEMORIAM
Bill Clark’s Divine Plan

by Paul Kengor on 8.12.13

Ronald Reagan’s top hand has died.
The most important adviser to President Ronald Reagan in his take down of the Soviet empire has died at the age of 81. His name was William P. “Bill” Clark, known to many as simply “Judge Clark,” and he was one of the finest human beings and Americans that this country has ever known. I can say that without exaggeration and with the intimate knowledge of someone who became not only Clark’s biographer but a close friend.
Actually, it was hard to be otherwise. I never met anyone who didn’t like and come to respect Bill Clark. Think about this: Could you name another person, in the Reagan administration or out, praised by figures as diverse as Edmund Morris and Cap Weinberger, Edwin Meese and Lou Cannon, Maureen Dowd and Michael Reagan, Human Events and the New York Times, Time and National Review, and even Jimmy Carter and George H. W. Bush? As to the last pair, when we prepared the biography of Clark for publication, it wasn’t a huge surprise when we got endorsements from both Carter and Bush. Only Bill Clark could inspire something like that.

And yet, if you asked Bill Clark how that could be, he would smile and say, “They’re easily deceived.”

No, they weren’t. In Clark’s mind, however, they were. This was a devoutly Catholic man of genuine saint-like charity and humility — praise he would characteristically and insistently deny. In fact, the biggest mistake I made in convincing him to let me be his biographer was allowing him veto power over things he objected to. This wasn’t a mistake for the usual reasons. Indeed, if I want to make a criticism of Clark, he would say “much deserved.” The problem was Clark’s refusal to let me commend him for things indubitably much deserved. Clark wouldn’t even let me call me him a “devout” Catholic. If I recall, we settled on “serious” Catholic. That, at the least, could be rightly said of a man who built a church on his ranch outside Paso Robles, California, and whose only real regret in life was that he didn’t pursue the priesthood, leaving an Augustinian novitiate for good in February 1951.

But there was good reason for that, as Clark often noted. “It wasn’t part of the DP, Paul,” he would tell me again and again. “Not part of the DP.”
The “DP,” which Clark and Ronald Reagan pondered together, was the “Divine Plan.”
To that end, God had another route for Bill Clark: it was to become first a lawyer, a rancher, and then connect with Ronald Reagan in a fascinating ride that altered the course of history.
The two men took that ride together. Fellow ranchers, fellow horsemen, fellow cowboys, they were kindred souls — some said like brothers, others said like father and son. They seemed to intuitively know what the other wanted. They were so close that Michael Reagan, Ronald Reagan’s son, emailed me yesterday to say of Clark’s death: “I have lost my father for the second time … Good bye friend.”
For Bill Clark, the partnership began when he helped Reagan’s 1966 campaign for governor. Once Reagan won, Clark was his top aide, eventually chief of staff. Governor Reagan soon began appointing Clark up through various levels of the California court system, all the way to the state Supreme Court (thus the moniker “Judge Clark”). Clark loved the work, and even commuted to Sacramento via a private plane he regularly launched from the driveway-turned-runway of his ranch.
There was only one thing that could tug Bill Clark away from that job: Ronald Reagan’s need for him elsewhere; his sense of duty to Reagan and country. And so, when Reagan became president in January 1981, he convinced — and it truly took convincing — Clark to come to Washington to serve as deputy secretary of state. As Reagan put it, he needed someone he could trust at State, an “America desk” at Foggy Bottom. Bill Clark was that guy.
For the record, Clark first had to survive confirmation hearings before he could take the job at State. That would have been easy if not for a smarmy, smirking politician on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee who deliberately tripped up Clark, turning the good man’s appointment into an international spectacle that humiliated the gentlemanly rancher and thrilled our enemies, especially the Soviets. That man, whose charade that February day was one of the ugliest displays in the history of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, was a young senator from Delaware named Joe Biden.
Despite Biden’s antics, Clark’s performance at State blew away everyone. From Time to the New York Times, he was heralded for his steady hand, as Reagan’s reliable counsel. A year later, at the start of January 1982, Clark became Reagan’s national security adviser, head of the crucial National Security Council. It was there, in that seat, that Clark and Reagan, along with the likes of Bill Casey at the CIA and a group of superb staffers, laid the groundwork to undermine the Soviet Union.
That story cannot be given due justice in this short tribute, but, as a quick summary: The most consequential National Security Decision Directives — NSDDs, the formal documents that created official Reagan administration policy — were completed under Clark’s direction. Clark oversaw the development of NSDDs 2 through 120. The goal of these NSDDs was nothing short of revolutionary: to reverse the Soviet grip on Eastern Europe, to liberate Eastern Europe, and even to bring “political pluralism” (as one NSDD put it) to the Soviet Union. These were dramatic objectives that no one but Clark and Reagan thought possible in 1982.
Beyond NSDDs, any student of the Reagan administration knows that the really big things that happened in Reagan’s Soviet policy took place in the two transformational years that Clark headed the NSC: the meeting with John Paul II at the Vatican, the Westminster speech, the Strategic Defense Initiative, the Evil Empire speech, NSDDs 32, 54, 66, 75, just for starters.
When Clark left the NSC position in late 1983, in part due to pressures from White House “moderates” and “pragmatists,” the men surrounding Clark were devastated. They sensed a looming apocalypse; they thought everything they had gained under Clark was suddenly dead. I sat in the tack barn of Clark’s ranch one hot summer day and read their pleas — long, heartfelt, heartbroken letters (which Clark kept). His faithful lieutenants were sure all was lost. Two men, however, were not crestfallen at all: Bill Clark and Ronald Reagan. They just smiled. They were confident the plan was in place. The groundwork had been laid. The DP was ready to prevail.
Clark’s service to Reagan wasn’t over. He went on to serve a short but successful stint as secretary of interior, replacing the embattled James Watt. He also quietly served Reagan throughout the second term in a number of fascinating trouble-shooter and advisory roles that ranged from China’s Three Gorges Dam to Saddam Hussein to Iran-Contra. Virtually none of these tasks made the newspapers, and weren’t supposed to.
But then, alas, came another fascinating twist in the DP. It was what Clark later called a “wake-up call,” or, in his penchant for acronyms, an “AFE” — an Action Forcing Event.
It was March 7, 1988. The 56-year-old Clark taxied into position on the dirt landing strip of his ranch. He decided he was substantially finished with government service and was looking forward to life at the ranch, working cattle, planting olive trees, and developing a vineyard. But his sense of duty to God and country seemed unclear, unsettled. Something wasn’t right.
The night before, Clark had returned from a trip to Europe. He felt jet-lagged, not especially sharp, but his desk at the office in town was piled high with work, and he needed to pick up some fuel. He stepped into his plane and ran up the engine. Early into takeoff, the plane got caught in a crosswind. “I knew right away that I was in trouble,” said Clark. “I lost control.” At about 60 miles per hour, the plane crashed into a supply building to the right of the runway.
Bill Clark lay unconscious in a mangled mess of smoking metal. Ribs broken, shoulder separated, skull fractured, and soaked in blood and fuel, he was alive but hardly out of danger. The engine, simmering hot, was pushed back against his legs, while fuel from the fractured wing-tank sprayed on to the unconscious pilot. For some reason, the plane hadn’t burst into flames. “It should have lit up,” Clark later marveled.
A briefcase in the seat next to Clark contained a Dictaphone/recorder that activated from the force of impact when the plane hit the ground. The audiotape still survives. On the recording, Clark can be heard groaning and calling for help.
Clark’s only coherent plea, “God, please help me!” is immediately followed by the sound of the door being ripped off the plane. Jésus Muñoz, long-time ranch hand and dear friend of Clark to his final hours, had happened upon the crash and raced to the scene. He yanked the door from its hinges and somehow extricated Clark before the plane burst into flames.
Clark remained unconscious for an hour-and-a-half before waking in the intensive care unit at a nearby hospital. He thanked God and then made a decision he had been discerning: He would no longer delay in building that chapel he had thought about over the years. That brush with death, said Clark, was “a little wake-up call … God’s wake-up call.”
“Look,” he told me one summer at his ranch, shyly, sheepishly. “I’m no saint… but the incident helped me decide to go ahead and build the chapel.” To borrow from one of his inspirations, Mother Teresa, he determined to do something beautiful for God, on the ranch property, the same ground where his craft smashed.
Today, that chapel, financed solely by Clark, sits off Route 46 in central California, at the entrance to Clark’s ranch. It’s called Chapel Hill, and is admired by the community and, surely, by the God that Clark dedicated it to.
It contains artifacts collected by Clark and his late wife: originals from 14th to 17th century European monasteries, a special replica from St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York, surplus ceiling and stone remnants from the William Randolph Hearst collection at nearby San Simeon. On the exterior of the church is a ceramic mosaic of Saint Francis’ Peace Prayer. It was a prayer that Clark and Reagan prayed together. It’s also reflective of the Franciscan friar’s frock that hangs in the closet of Clark’s ranch house, given to him long ago, but which, having decided not to pursue the priesthood, Clark always felt unworthy to don.
In fact, it’s all so magically and providentially Saint Francis-like. In the hospital, having received God’s “wake-up call,” Clark experienced a Francis-like epiphany, as he felt God calling him to build his church.
Clark gave God that church, and God gave Bill Clark 25 more years.
Fittingly, and finally, it’s in that chapel that the funeral service of Bill Clark, Ronald Reagan’s indispensable man and kindred soul, seriously devout Catholic and seriously good man who literally made the world a better place, will be held this week.
Call it the DP. All part of the DP.

About the Author: Paul Kengor is professor of political science and executive director of The Center for Vision & Values at Grove City College. His books include The Judge: William P. Clark, Ronald Reagan’s Top Hand (with Patricia Clark Doerner) and The Crusader: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of Communism. http://spectator.org/archives/2013/08/12/bill-clarks-divine-plan

No, they are not. It is likely that those we saw cheering for the now apparently state-controlled Boston police, after illegally entering their homes without warrants, and forcing them out like common criminals, were just more choreographed hires of our tyrannical “Administration” – regime would be far more accurate. So we shouldn’t accept this as any kind of representation of the “voice of the People.”

Why would anyone believe the alleged “polls” which allegedly state that the majority of Americans are okay with this? The same people doing the snooping are also conducting the “polls.” Yes, it may well be that 40-45% of the populous – the uneducated along with those who went to college (same difference, apparently) – who are also on some sort of government assistance don’t care about their rights, but a majority still do. Part of the way that Lucifer – Father of Lies – sells his program is by telling us that “everyone’s doing it.” Clinton, Obama, Reid, Pelosi…they all say that “the American People” want this (gun control, Obamacare, you name it), or they don’t want that. Notice that what they say is always in direct opposition and conflict with your own experience and common sense. So, we mustn’t believe the incessant (never-ending) lie that “everyone’s doing it.” No, they’re not…and the ones who are are the 45% or whatever the number was that Mitt Romney correctly pointed to…before apologizing (which is exactly why he lost – aside from massive voter fraud).

So, my fellow Americans, trust your own intelligence, and don’t be so quick to write off your fellow citizens. That is exactly what the Left does. Their core belief is that “ordinary” people aren’t capable of taking care of themselves. Hence, we need them (the Nanny State) to do it for us. That is as false as it is arrogant, and we mustn’t fall for that lie. I, for one, believe that the majority of Americans – certainly every real American – still believe in this country, and in the principles upon which it was founded. We just need to stop accepting the lies of those who seek to control us as fact. They are not.

God bless us to each do the right thing, and to pray for our country. Meanwhile, the Republicans are not going to save us. Only a third party will do that. We won’t be “splitting” the Conservative vote, because if John McCain, Marco Rubio, and John Boehner are “conservatives” then we most certainly are not!

Glenn,
Yes, we’re curious, but frankly, I stopped listening to or watching you a year ago when Sheriff Arpaio clearly demonstrated that the puppet in the White House is a fraud…and you, Glenn, and your two yes-men sidekicks, openly mocked him. How does that square with your motto “The truth has no agenda!” Glenn?

ANYONE and EVERYONE with a pulse knows that Barack Obama is an impostor, who cannot and will not demonstrate even his U.S. citizenship, much less his qualification as a “natural-born citizen” under the Constitution; and yet you mock those who do not cower to the elites in the media as you have chosen to do on this clear-cut and obvious matter of unprecedented consequence to our country. [I suppose you are protecting your pal, Bill O'Reilly, who went out of his way early on to dispense with this, with the mindless assertion that he had "done the investigation on this" by citing the two notices in the Hawaiian papers regarding the reported birth of "a son" to "Mr. and Mrs. Barack H. Obama." The two announcements were 12 words each. My book contains 167,583 words of devastating proof of the fraud and massive cover-up by both "Progressive" and "Conservative" media and political elites.]

You can’t expect to lie and cover up, right along side every Obama enabler in the country, Glenn, and at the same time have people believe anything you say. Why should they? Why should WE?

The truth has no agenda, Glenn, so why do you?

Tom Ballantyne – Author of Oh Really, O’Reilly! an expose of the cover-up of the greatest fraud in American history by none other than the so-called Conservative Media!

How long will we mindlessly persist in the absurd habit of referring to the ABM (anything but mainstream) media as “mainstream”? Those who engage in this practice obviously have not thought through the enormous damage that this causes. If they are, indeed, the “mainstream,” then their views and agenda obviously represent those of “mainstream” Americans, and, therefore, are those of the majority.

Do any of us really believe that Katie Courick, or Brian Williams, or David Gregory (I could go on ad nauseum) speak for “mainstream” America? No. Of course not. They speak for the elites, the Ruling Class, but as long as we mindlessly and voluntarily give them that elevated status, they are more than happy to accept it. They, of course, as the self-appointed “opinion makers,” actually believe that what they say is “mainstream.”

Here’s a tip: Next time you’re in a Denny’s, look around, and see if you see Katie, or Brian, or David anywhere. I’ll save you the trouble. You won’t. So stop calling them mainstream. They are the OEM – Obsolete Establishment Media – and they have been that for years. As long as we keep referring to them as our bonafide spokesmen, however, we will continue to falsely accept that they are relevant. Does the Administration or its paid hacks (paid by you) speak for America? Of course they don’t, and the OEM is no different. If Chris Mathews could replace Jake Carney, he’d do it in a heartbeat, and so would 90% of the so-called unbiased journalists. (Yes, Mathews is supposed to be an opinion journalist, but he is considered to be every bit as “mainstream” as Matt Laurer, et al.)

This must start with each of us, so while I’m calling the author on this, ALL of us need to mend our ways. I’m proof that it can be done. And of equal importance, we must stop THINKING of them as somehow representative of majority thought. That’s like accepting that Michael Moore speaks for America. What he (and they) speak for is the “fundamental transformation” of America. Think not? Did you hear a single OEM reporter question that statement? Of course not. They cheered it…then and now, when what it really means is the destruction of America as we know (or once knew) it!

Tom Ballantyne – Author of Oh Really, O’Reilly!

]]>http://uncommonsensenow.com/when-will-the-madness-on-our-side-cease/feed/0Limited Marshall Law…in Tucson, AZ!http://uncommonsensenow.com/limited-marshall-law-in-tucson-az/
http://uncommonsensenow.com/limited-marshall-law-in-tucson-az/#commentsFri, 08 Mar 2013 20:49:25 +0000T. M. Ballantyne Jr.http://uncommonsensenow.com/?p=547Continue reading →]]>This action tells us two things: What the Federal Government will try to do; and what local governments are willing to allow their own party to get away with! While the pretext for this seems innocuous enough (allowing military planes to fly over an urban area), the much more salient point is that the Obama Administration is pushing to see how far it can go. Beyond that, they are conditioning citizens to accept such overreaches as normal and expedient. As Tip O’Neal famously noted, however, ”There are no coincidences in politics.” IOW, there is a reason behind everything that politicians do.

What starts out as a seemingly innocent and necessary infringement (like, say, a “background” check – unless, of course, one is the Commander in Chief – astonishingly, no background check or security clearance required in order to be trusted with the nuclear launch codes…) leads to consequences never envisioned by most people, but which were the ultimate design of the politicians all along. This is the way Constitutions are rendered meaningless. The People (and even well-meaning elected officials…if there still are such things) simply start allowing “small” things which are not authorized, and eventually they don’t even bother to consider the issue, as the precedent (of performing unconstitutional and thereby illegal “official” government acts) has long been set.

MOST of what our government does today – literally, the vast majority of it – is completely outside of the very limited authority (specifically enumerated powers) granted to it by the sovereign People, under the Constitution – the Supreme Law of the Land. Our system has been so turned on its head by our oligarchic rulers that while overreaching without our permission, and in opposition to the chains of the Constitution which were intended to bind their hands from committing such abuses into nearly every aspect of our lives, these petty tyrants (Congress, Executive, and Courts) also refuse to do the few things which they are authorized and expected to do under the authority of the Constitution: protect our lives (those of the unborn, as well as the living via our ever-so-porous borders), our liberties (which they now abuse by regulating us to a degree which would have scarcely been imaginable to the founders), and our property (which they now take at will through the extra-legal theft, and cavalier redistribution of the fruits of our labor to those who choose not to work). But it is even worse than that….

When we here in Arizona sought to do what the federal government has flatly refused to do – protect our borders – the absurdly-named “justice” department filed suit to prevent us from exercising our God-given right of protecting ourselves and our property. When states have sought to preserve the sanctity of the vote from blanket abuse and fraud – something no doubt required under federal law, Eric Holder has once again gone to court to prevent virtually every obvious, commonsense measure duly enacted by the People’s authorized representatives. Never have we witnessed or experienced such an egregious and brazen abuse of power since the days of King George, and his own abuses paled in comparison to those of our current illegitimate and “unenlightened” monarch! The result is that we no longer live under the Rule of Law. We are today, in actual fact, being governed by both an illegal executive and an oligarchic and unaccountable Congress and Judicial System.

It should outrage every citizen of this nation that we are often told as voters that while even overwhelming majorities favor certain actions (such as the establishment of Term Limits, and the abolition of the once-illegal Income Tax) those measure will “never pass.” [See Uncommon Sense...Apparently!, by T. M. Ballantyne, Jr.] How can that be in a nation where the representatives of the People are commissioned to make the laws which the People desire? Short answer: It cannot; thus proving that those whom we hire and pay to represent us simply do not. They are obviously beholden to someone other than ourselves!

Now that the sanctity of the vote has been rendered utterly meaningless by the absurd manufactured ruse of minority voter suppression (requiring voter ID – i.e., a driver’s license), our near-final recourse has been swept away. What is next? The elimination of our Second Amendment right to protect ourselves against a tyrannical government. Any wonder that this God-given, Constitutionally-protected right is now under direct assault? The Germans never imagined that Austrian-born Adolf Hitler would go as far as he did…but he did it one illegal (but no doubt “essential” and even “benevolent”) step at a time – until it was too late to stop him. That is the very chronicle of government throughout all of world history…not the exception. The exception is a country in which the People are the ultimate authority. We were the exception, but today our authority has been swept aside under the guise of protecting us and guaranteeing our “equality.” Nothing, of course, could be further from the truth! As famously observed by George Orwell (in Animal Farm), “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others!” The People are barred from working (ref. Alaskan Pipeline), and millions are added to the Food Stamp (welfare) rolls, while the Obamas and their enormous entourage vacation all over the world (between golf outings by the “chief executive”) at unprecedented expense to those whose standard of living the Administration simultaneously disparages and assaults!

So what will we do about it? The first thing we can and must all do is to speak openly about the now blatant disregard for both our sovereign authority as a People and the inalienable rights guaranteed us by our Constitution. Next, we must recognize that the two parties in power have no real interest in restoring our freedoms, by honoring their oaths of office. Seen any Republicans doing that lately? John Boehner? John McCain? Jeff Flake? et al.? No you haven’t.

If you saw five-term veteran Senator John McCain last week, jovially proclaiming to a Cuban-born American that Barack Obama had done “nothing” that rose to the level of impeachment; or you happened to be present when I confronted now-Senator Jeff Flake at the Red Mountain Tea Party a year ago, and heard him say precisely the same thing, you realize that what these politicians say while campaigning has almost no bearing on what they do once they’ve secured another term. Did you notice that after re-electing the entire Republican Congress in November, to go out and counter the wholesale destruction of our rights by this Administration, they turned around and re-installed the phlegmatic and obsequious John Boehner as their (our!) “leader”?

As long as such self-serving men and women occupy the highest offices in the land, as well as those in our statehouses, we will continue to witness the destruction of our country and constitution, and the evisceration of our rights…and as long as they are allowed to remain in their highly-profitable sinecures indefinitely – without the enactment of long-overdue Term Limits – we will continue to have them. Only when the suffering of the People becomes acute enough will they finally rise up and cast aside the one party which claims to be the champion of true American principles and values…and I’m not talking about the now fully-Marxist party of the American Left. (At least we now see them for who and what they really are.)

Sadly, however, most Conservatives have still not seen their own party of choice for what it really is…and with 100 years of continuous compromise (and worse) under its belt, it is not about to change! Notice that the “solution” of those firmly in control of the party (did you see your own preferred candidate nominated in this last presidential election?) is to dilute or “soften” our message, rather than to openly and unabashedly stand up for the principles and values which the majority of the American People still hold dear – skewed polling data to the contrary not withstanding! Meanwhile, acquiescence and compromise are the genetic footprint of the once “Grand,” and now only “Old” [Republican] Party!

Tom Ballantyne is the author of three books. The last two, Uncommon Sense…Apparently! and Oh Really, O’Reilly! are both available at Amazon. Uncommon Sensecompares the Marxist Progressivist philosophies of the Obama/Soros Administration and its party “loyalists” to those of the Founders. National Best-Selling Author Jerome Corsi has endorsed O’Reilly! as follows:

“In his excellent book, Tom takes on many in the Conservative Establishment Media for their failure to speak out on this important and clear-cut issue. While his criticism of those who should know better is biting, this is a witty, sometimes humorous, and fast-paced book, well researched and thoroughly documented. All who read my book on this subject will enjoy O’Reilly!”
Dr. Jerome Corsi – Author of Where’s The Birth Certificate?

Mr. Ballantyne can be contacted with comments or for speaking engagements at ThomasMBallantyne@gmail.com. He has spoken alongside Dr. Jack Cashill and internationally-recognized Global-Warming debunker Lord Christopher Monckton, at events in Arizona and California.

]]>http://uncommonsensenow.com/limited-marshall-law-in-tucson-az/feed/0The Congress, the Courts, and the Constitution….http://uncommonsensenow.com/the-congress-the-courts-and-the-constitution/
http://uncommonsensenow.com/the-congress-the-courts-and-the-constitution/#commentsWed, 06 Mar 2013 20:06:43 +0000T. M. Ballantyne Jr.http://uncommonsensenow.com/?p=540Continue reading →]]>In the totally unnecessary “side show” (his words) originating with our “carnival barker” in chief (whatever his actual name is; there seem to be many…all foreign), the lot of his co-dependent enablers have stated breathlessly (and somewhat incorrectly) that the Supreme Court has “never defined the meaning of ‘natural-born’ citizen”…as if, absent a “ruling” (another telling word, given the heady oligarchic height to which the Court has ascended over time) by these nine robed “justices” (John Roberts, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan…?) nothing can be known about the Constitution with certainty; as if the Federalists had never been written, or the extensive writings of the founders regarding the meaning of the Constitution were somehow unknown, or “out of print”!

In other words, absent their “ruling” (which is exactly what their sophist supporters favor), we cannot know anything about the Constitution for sure! Am I the only one in the room who bristles at that esoteric pronouncement? I think not. These men and women are no more intelligent than the rest of us, no wiser, and certainly no more moral than the roughly 315,500,000,000 citizens of this country. And yet somehow many – perhaps the majority – seem to mindlessly, or unthinkingly, accept that the members of the court are “all of the above.” On what basis do they make this judgment? On the fact that they are appointed for life by presidents loyal to their respective political parties, and can be clearly seen to vote accordingly the vast majority of the time?

I, frankly, have very little regard or use for the Supreme Court. Nine people, appointed for life, dressed in priestly garb have no right to tell a nation of 315,439,389 (as of yesterday at this time) what is Constitutional and what is not. I am decidedly not a fan of John Marshall, and the precedent he firmly established for Judicial Review. I do not believe that the practice was ever intended by the founders, and I have read as much, but haven’t studied the matter extensively.

The real irony today is that the high court is very loathe to perform one of its chief functions – that of serving as a check on the Executive (as well as on the Congress). In short, the court should overrule the president any time he does anything which is not specifically and clearly authorized in what used to be, at least, the Supreme Law of the Land (as specified in the 10th Amendment). Beyond that, their function should primarily be to give their opinion on the constitutional fealty of proposed legislation (my thought only, at this point, as the founders may or may not have envisioned it this way), and to rule on whether cases brought before them (not laws), are consistent with the laws passed by Congress, the Common Law (upon which much of our legal system is based), and the Constitution and Declaration.

They should be basing their judgments on the clear principles contained in both the Constitution and the Declaration, and on the historical record, as well as the written and documented beliefs of those who wrote them. Meanwhile, if the Congress itself were in the least way confined to the authority granted them under the Constitution, they would meet for a month or two out of the year – or in several brief sessions throughout the year. Originally, as specified in the Constitution, they only met for 2-3 weeks each year, starting on the first Monday in December.

Regrettably, that was changed to January 3rd, by the Twentieth Amendment, in March of 1932 – one year before FDR took office. We then went from having one session of 2-3 weeks in length (starting between the 1st and the 7th day of December, and presumably ending 2-3 days before Christmas, say December 22nd) to allowing just one day after New Years, to get back to Washington, in order to start the next day, and have the entire year in which to meet and pass regulations on the American People…all in the name of “taking care of them.”

That, my friends, was nothing short of a disaster…as well as the beginning of the end. Yes, there was a Depression, and that is no doubt the emergency which wasn’t allowed to “go to waste,” but the fatal and patently false presumption was that the Federal Government was chiefly responsible for solving that. In fact, they had no authority to do so, but in essence threw away the Constitution…and we have been operating outside of the Rule of Law from that day to this. The government that we now have would be entirely unrecognizable (and outside the framework of the law which they gave us) if viewed by the founders today.

The only thing that will save us as a nation at this point is to return to, and fully restore, the Constitution and the Rule of Law. When our “representatives” fully accept that they can pick and choose which parts of the Constitution (Article II – Section 1, the First Amendment, the Second, the Fourth, the Fifth, the Sixth, the Ninth, or the Tenth?) they will enforce, and which parts they will simply ignore, we no longer have the Rule of Law…and at this point in our history, we indisputably do not!